Oneill Excavation LLC

Oneill Excavation LLC, doing business as O'Neill Excavating, a small business based in Troy and Libby, Montana, operates as a prime contractor providing excavation, vegetation management, mechanical thinning, and fuels reduction services to federal land management agencies, with 100% of its recent awards as a prime and no subcontract footprint. The company holds a Department of Transportation Certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise designation and competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on indefinite delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements with the U.S. Forest Service.

Oneill Excavation's customer base is entirely concentrated within the Department of Agriculture. The Forest Service accounts for 100% of recent awards: Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) represents 29 awards valued at $63.9 million combined potential value; Forest Service Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region) holds 2 awards worth $20 million; the National Interagency Fire Center carries 7 awards worth $1.8 million; and Rocky Mountain Research Station holds 2 awards totaling $276 thousand. The company's capability portfolio centers on concrete forest stewardship tasks: mechanical thinning, excavator piling, slash piling, fireline construction, roadside mastication, and heavy equipment rental for fire suppression and land management across Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Representative recent work includes a $36,541 September 2026 delivery order from Region 1 for mechanical fuels treatment on Kootenai National Forest in Eureka, Montana (completion August 1, 2027); a $156,360 March 2025 order for the Pinkham Harvest Fuels project (114 acres of thinning and excavator piling) and Highway Dickey Fuels project (284 acres of excavator piling) in Eureka, Montana; and a $218,090 April 2023 order for 296 acres of thinning and excavator piling plus 0.9 miles of fireline construction in Kootenai National Forest, funded under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Oneill Excavation holds five active parent vehicles anchoring its prime work. The largest is the Region 1/Region 4 Mechanical Thinning Indefinite Delivery Contract (ceiling $12.5 million, Total Small Business set-aside, expiring September 30, 2027), against which the company has executed 18 task orders totaling $1.2 million in combined potential value. A newly awarded Region 1 Road Maintenance and Forest Maintenance/Support Services single-award IDC (ceiling $20 million, Total Small Business, expiring September 29, 2030) was awarded September 30, 2025. The Northern Rockies Stewardship Blanket Purchase Agreement (ceiling $50 million, single award, no set-aside, expiring October 3, 2032) with Region 1 enables task orders for stewardship work across Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Two additional National Interagency Fire Center indefinite delivery contracts for heavy equipment in East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 (both Total Small Business, $250,000 and $500,000 ceilings respectively, expiring May 14, 2029 and June 1, 2028) support wildfire suppression and prescribed project work. Task orders against these vehicles have generated approximately $147 thousand to $1.2 million in potential value per vehicle.

Activity has peaked and stabilized: the company received 11 awards in 2023, declining to 7 in 2024, 7 in 2025, and 3 through September 2026. One award (potential value $37 thousand) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and faces recompete risk. The company's combined potential value across all 41 awards stands at $86.1 million, but obligated dollars total only $1.7 million (2% of combined potential), indicating that most awards remain task-order vehicles and delivery orders not yet drawn down. Oneill Excavation's work is classified under NAICS 238910 (Support Activities for Forestry) for 39 awards and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation codes, predominantly Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (24 awards) and Tree Thinning (13 awards). The company has executed work across Region 1 and Region 4 national forests since SAM.gov registration in March 2017, with prior funding routed through Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and Inflation Reduction Act programs.